The calculus changed when Isis started beheading westerners and posting atrocities online, and the Gulf states are now backing other groups in the Syrian war, such as the Nusra Front.
In the absence of any concerted government clean-up effort, the post-atrocity game plan, so far, has desperate, unprotected, and ill-equipped villagers sponging, spooning, and netting oil out of the water.
The killers post their atrocities on YouTube with relish, commanding a vast viewing public; they are busy across thickets of internet hot-sites and the narco-blogosphere.
The Zetas post their atrocities on YouTube, by way of recruitment posters; it is a matter of conjecture whether they got the idea from al-Qaida – recently inherited by Islamic State (Isis) – or the other way around.
In Facebook posts before his atrocity photo was posted, Muhaxheri claimed he controlled the appointment of the imam at the Central Mosque in Kacanik, which has become a center of conflict between Islamist radicals and local traditional Muslims.
The list of individuals affected may need revision and expansion to include those responsible for vote-rigging and post-election atrocities.
Ayman Zawahiri, leader of the core group, has long disagreed with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS's leader, warning him that ISIS's habit of beheading its opponents and posting such atrocities on video was giving al-Qaeda a bad name.So far ISIS has been effectively challenged only by fellow Sunnis.
And so we get to the latest calls for increased surveillance, post-Paris terrorist atrocity.
A taxi driver takes you to Nicosia's equivalent of Checkpoint Charlie: the Ledra Palace gate, a place of eerie quiet with a police post, posters of Turkish atrocities and, visible through a deserted building opposite the Greek embassy, brightly coloured political murals reminiscent of Belfast and Berlin.You tell the police that you want to visit the Turkish zone.
A day, which is meant to symbolize peace, and goodwill to all men, and women, especially post the Paris 2015 atrocities.
But Britain has nothing to be smug about when it comes to post-colonial amnesia: atrocities in Kenya, Malaya (as it was then) and elsewhere at the same time were being quickly swept under the carpet.
